Wilby Family History
- Wilby Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the places called Wilby, in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire. The first is probably named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English beag ‘circle’; the second has the same first element + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’ or Old English beag, and the last is named with the Old English or Old Scandinavian personal name Villi + býr.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 167,172 Historical Documents with Wilby on Ancestry
- 64,047 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,536 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,247 Military Records
- 3,048 Immigration Records
- 46,294 Member Trees
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Number of Wilby families
 475 - 948  159 - 474 |
 1 - 158  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wilby families
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wilby census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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